When Ron Madson is not writing horror/fantasy/spiritual fiction, he and his husband are avid travelers, and collectors of Native American pottery, jewelry and fetishes. For thirty-three years Ron was an elementary school art teacher, staff developer and working artist. In the late 1980's he became an advocate for LGBTQ youth and teachers; the first openly Gay Elementary School Teacher in NYC. He and his husband, Richard Dietz, as part of a law suit, successfully sued the City of New York for domestic partnership rights (1994), laying the groundwork for Marriage Equality.Ron has had three one man shows for his artwork, as well as being in numerous group shows. His poetry has been published. He has had memoir essays published in RFD Magazine. A scarred childhood, teaching, creating, advocating, mystical searching, being Gay in a taboo world has generated this second book in the series, "Shared Blood."